reat mall 1879. JULY, Seventh Month. Astronomical Calculations. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. Id. m. Days. Id. m. Days. Id. 's Declination. 123456 m. 322222 23N. 7 7 22 22 42 12 21 59 18 21 2 24 19 52 O Full Moon, 3d day, 4h. 6m., evening, E. Last Quarter, 11th day, 3h. 22m., morning, E. → New Moon, 19th day, 3h. 34m., morning, E. > First Quarter, 26th day, 5h. 4m., morning, W. 190 9 W. 4 32 7 38 15 60 10 520 33 feet 10 33 4 25 41 41 h'd 10 55 5 6 54 h'd 11 19 5 48 10 15 524 7 n'k morn. 7 16 193 12 Sa. 4 34 7 36 15 7 47 0 22 8 16 1 12 h'rt 01 h'rt 8 42 2 6 13 bel. 9 7 2 47 21 bel. 9 30 3 35 31 rei. 9 55 4 23 6 8 rei. 10 24 5 sec. 10 59 6 sec. 11 40 7 91 kn. To-day the meek-eyed cattle on the hills Aspects, Holidays, Events, 2 W. O in Apo. 3 Th. Hot and dry. runs low. Continues hot. declared, 1776. 4 Fr. Very high tide. {INDEPENDENCE 9 W. 10 Th. C, LH ? in Perihelion. 11th. Alexander Hamilton died, 1804. 11 Fr. 6 h C, 68 C. 12 Sa. 18 Fr. Farmer's Calendar. It IT is of no use to grow bushes and weeds in the place where the grass ought to grow. should be the aim of good farming to keep them down. As soon as the grass is cut, and the hay in the barn, let us turn to and put an end to them. Here is an old wall that is choked up with not wild shrubs. Might as well get too it out of the way. It was built dry. before the mowing-machine was thought of, and it isn't just the thing for our style of work. Let us plan to till less ground and do it better. Do no more than in Apogee. Bat. of the Boyne, 1690. farm. Thrift comes from just that kind of work, so let us do our level best. Weeds must live 13 E 5th Sun. aft. Tr. 6. 14 Mo. 13th. Very low tides. Shifts you can do well. The best of 15 Tu. St. Swithin. Gold 1003, 1878. 16 work is none too good for the 16 W. gr. elongation E. 17 Th. 16th runs high. Squall Not so fine for 19 Sa. O ecl., invisible in U. S. 20 E 6th Sun. aft. Tr. St. Margaret. 21 Mo., HC. High tid. 22 Tu. St. Mary Magdalene. 23 W. 22d. 30, 6. 24 Th. on what we may call the food of plants. If the land is rich, they draw hard on it with their rank growth. Now, plant-food costs a great deal of time and money. We save it under the barn; we buy it at a high cost, brought as it is from long distances, and put it on the land to grow crops. We must take care not to be robbed of it by plants that we do not want. If we have a hive of busy bees, we try to guard them against theft. Why not do as much for the crops, and keep in Aphelion. down the weeds? After haying, Showery. let us up and at them. 1879. AUGUST, Eighth Month. Astronomical Calculations. Days. d. m. Days. Id. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Q's Declination. O Full Moon, 2d day, 1h. 40m., morning, W. 230 33 sec. 9 40 5 0 43 thi. |10 29 6 0 thi.|11 26| 70 6 111 8 9 0 112 98 10 legs 2 54 10 42 4 411 28 4 1112 0 1 Along the road-side, like the flowers of gold, 7 Th. 6 h C. 8 Fr. 9th. in Apo. 9 Sa., ¿TC. Hot and muggy weather. Farmer's Calendar. GRASS is the great crop with us, and it must be so for all time. To with a long spell of cold weather keep cows well through the year, which is sure to come, is the great problem we have to solve, and so we might as well bend all our plans to that. Now that the haying is over, let us see how we can lay out to cut more grass next year. More grass will keep 10 E 9th Sun. aft. Tr. St. Lawrence. more stock, more stock will give 15 Fr. Assumption of Virgin Mary. in Aphel. in Perig. us more plant-food; more plantfood will keep up the land and give us some crop to sell. Topdress the mowing lots; it is a good time to do it now. A compost heap, with muck and lime, ashes and bone-meal, is just what the field wants, and the more of it the better. Stiff loam makes a good basis for a grass compost for light land; and if we add some nitrate of soda, or what is called the Chili saltpetre of commerce, and a few German potash salts, it will pay in the end. Why not get out a lot of clay or 24 E 11th S. af. Tr. St. Bartholomew. loam and use it in this way; put it under the sink-spout, and soak Heavy up all the waste water. Sow showers, round turnips at once where the pease and the early potatoes grew. Dig ditches; it pays to drain the lowlands. Cut the bushes along the walls. Spruce up, as they say, and get ready for the fall work. with wind and thunder. 28 Th. St. Augustine. H. 29 Fr. Beheading of St. John Baptist. 30 Sa. High tides. 30th. 6 31 E 12th Sun. aft. Tr. 8 C. O. Last Quarter, 8th day, 2h. 32m., evening, W. 1 M. 5 25 6 35 13 245 2 Tu. 5 26 6 33 13 m. m. Morn Even Place. Rises. h. h. m. 10 2 6 72 9 42 12 117 1 14h'd 7 24 1 37 118 1 13h'd 7 49 2 20 119 2 246 3 W. 5 276 31 13 247 4 Th. 5 286 30 13 22 14 248 5 Fr. 5 296 28 12 59 2 17 249 6 Sa. 5 30 6 26 12 56 2 20 250 7 S. 5 31 6 24 12 532 23 251 8 M. 5 326 23 12 51 2 25 252 9 Tu. 5 33 6 21 12 482 28 253 10 W. 5 34 6 19 12 452 31 254 11 Th, 5 356 18 12 432 33 255 12 Fr. 5 36 6 16 12 40 2 36 256 13 Sa. 5 376 14 12 372 39 257 14 S. 5 38 6 258 15 M. 5 39 6 259 16 Tu. 5 40 6 260 17 W. 5 416 261 18 Th. 5 426 262 19 Fr. 5 43 6 263 20 Sa. 5 44 6 264 21 S.5 456 265 22 M. 5 47 5 266 23 Tu. 5 485 56 12 83 8 8 7 5 267 24 W. 5 495 55 12 63 10 8 8 61 268 25 Th. 5 50 5 53 12 33 13 8 9 269 26 Fr. 5 51 5 51 12 03 16 270 27 Sa. 5 525 49 11 573 19 911 91 271 28 S. 5 53 5 47 11 543 22 9 12 10 10 feet 4 710 52 272 29 M. 5 545 46 11 523 24 10 13 102 111 feet rises 11 34 11 12 32 2 44 7 8 legs 0 44 8 38 83 legs 1 53 9 25 92 feet 3 110 9 |